Printing and cutting machine.



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APPLICATIQN -F|LED JULY 21.1913.

Patented Apr. 17,1917.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, I QI3- 1,222,914. a Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

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Patented Apr. 1?, 1922:

To cZZ whom it may concern:

"no STATES PATE OFFICE JOHN FLINN ANCONA, ROCHESTER, YORK.

- PRINTI G AND Corrine inseam.-

Specification o! Potters Patent.

Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

Application filed July 21, 1913. Serial No. 780,244.

Belt known that I, Join FLINE'ANCONA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improve.- ments in Printing and Cutting Machines, of which is a specification, reference being had I therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has for its generalond primeryoloject to prov de mechanism for conveniently and economically producingreletively long and. narrow strips or tapes of paper or the like having continuous read mg or similar matter printed on one or both sides thereof.

In another epplicution for Letters Patent filed by myself and John Feger Anconn,

Mat 13, 1913, Serial No. 767,326, there is" described a novel reading device wherein is employed an elongated reading strip having reading matter arranged in a. single, continuous column on each side thereof, the residing matter being oppositely disposed on the oppos te sides of the strip. Said reading strip is used in connection with a read mg frame employing a pair'of rolls, thestrips being gradually reeled. from one roll to'the other during the reading of .oneside thereof, whereupon -the frame is reversed end the strip gradually rereeled upon the first roll and the opposite side read. 0

A more particular object of the present invention is to provide printing and cutting mechanism for producing reading strips capable of use in a. reading device of the above character, said printing mechanism being of the approved rotary type and the strips loe-v ing produced in continuous form, that is to say lgeing free from goints such as would be occasioned by printing the'strips in sections and joining them together. It will be understood in this connection that a reading strip,

in order to be conveniently handled, should he only e few inches wide, and that in order to include upon a single strip. of this width a complete novel or s milar work in type of a size suitable for easy reading a strip many feet in length w0uld-lbe required.

To this end the invention contemplates the provision of rotary printing mechanism capa-ble of printing a cont nuous orunbroken column or line of greater length than. the length or circumference of the printing cylinder, and also the provision of1mproved cutting mechanism especially adapted to more general sever into strips a web printed by the print-- ing mechanism above referred to, said .printing and. cutting mechanisms inrtherzn'oro each involving certein Enovel features oiutility as will hereinafter more fully appear. The foregoing and other objects of the 1nvent1on,'togcther with means whereby the some may be carried into effect, will hestbe understood from the following description v of one form or embodiment'thereof illiistrated in the accompanying drawings; It

will be understood, however, that the con struction described and shown has been chosen for illustrative purposesmerely and that the invention may be emhodiedin other forms without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.) It will be furthermore understood that the utility of the invention is not limited to the particular pnr ose above outlined, but that certain or it features thereof, either separately or in combination with one another according to the require. ments, might be used to equal advzintugeior other purposes and in other relations.

In said drawings: l V

Figure 1 ise. side elevation of .a combined structed in accordance with the invention.

printing and cutting or slittingmachine con;

' Fig. 2 is a. longitudinal sectional view illustrating diagrammatically the relationship and the cooperation of the printing,

impression, and slitting cylinders.-

Fig. 3 is an elevation, pertlybroken away,

of the first printing yh d audits v crating impression cylinder as viewed from clamping devices removed.

Fig. 8 is a sim lar. view. illustrating a. modified construction.

Fig. 9 is an elevation partly broken away of the cutting or slitting cylinders as viewed from the line 99, Fig. 1, looking'in the direction of the arrow.

Fig. 10 is a section on Fig. 9.

, Fig. 11 is an enlarged (letoil sectional view the line 10 -10,

of portions of the cooperating helical slitting knives and portions of the cylinders to which they are secured. Fig. 12 is a plan view of the aper web, illustrating the disposition of t e printed matter thereon and the manner in which the reading strips are produced therefrom igs. 13 and 14 are enlar (1 plan views i'iustrating the opposite si es of a single reading strip, the portions of the webfrom which said strip is severed being shown in dotted lines.

In Fig. 1, 2O denotes the machine frame, 21 and the upper and lower printing cylinders carried by shafts journaled in said frame, 23 and 24 the lower and upper impression cylinders, also carried by ournaled in said frame and cooperating respectively with the rinting cylinders 21 and 22, 25 a bed or ta le supported by the frame and over which the web 26 passe, 27 guide rolls, 28 feed rolls for the paper web, and 29 inking rolls for the printin cylinders. Except as hereinafter described the parts thus far enumerated may be of any suitable or well known construction common to the usual rotary or cylinder printiag means of adjusting screws'39.

press. As shown, power is communica to the machine from any suitable source through a belt 30 coiiperating with a pulley 31 on the shaft of the cylinder 21, on which shaft is secured a gear 32 meshing with the gear 33 on the shaft of the im ression cylinder 23, and with a gear 34 w ich in turn meshes with the ear 35 on the shaft of the impression cylin er' 24, said gear also meshing with a gear 36 on the shaft of the printing cylinder 22. By these connections the cylinders 21, 22, 23 and 24 are all driven in unison by the belt 30. In order to provide for the proper registry of the printed matter on the opposite sides of the web one pair of cylinders, herein the cylinders 22 and 2t are adjustably mounted, the shafts of said cylinders being ournaled in slides 37 mounted in guides 38 on the frame, said slides being adjusted to any desired position in said guides "and held in such position by 0 compensate for the adjustment of the cylinders 22 and 24, the shaft of the gear 34 is similarly journaled in slides 40 mounted in guides 41 on the machine frame and movable therein by means of adjusting. screws 42. v

In accordance with the process for which the pres it machine isparticularly adaglted the'elongated, continuous strips of rea 'n matter are printed upon the web 26 in d1- agonal positions, the said stri s (designated by the numeral 43 in Fig. 12 commencin at points adjacent one ed e of said web an terminating at points. adjacent the opposite edge'thereof. \Vhen so printed it'will be seen that by slitting-the web diagonally'a' continuous strip of the proper dimensions and containing the desired readin matter in suitable arrangement may be p need. For the particular purpose referred to at the beginning of this ification each strip is printed on both sides, the lines of rea ing matter running crom-wise of the strip an said reading matter .being op 'tely disposedon the opposite sides of t e strip. In other words the successive lines of said reading matter may be considered as running downwardly or toward the right on one side of the strip, as shown in Fig. 13, and u wardly or toward the left on the reverse si as shown in Fig. 14, so that the matter at the upper or right end of the side of the strip shown in Fig. 14 forms a continuation of the matter at the lower or right end of the side of the strip'shown in Fig. 13.

In order to print the continuous diagonal strips of readin matter shown in Fig. 12 upon the web 2 the printing surfaces or impression elements of the cylinders 21 and 22 are helically arranged thereon and prefera'bly extend continuously from end to end thereof. In other words each printin surface ma be considered as consisting n elatively s ort lines of type arran cd in a long, continuous column, the severa lines bein each pe ndicular tothe len h of the co umn, an the column-itself ously and helicallywound or wrapped about the cylinder. A suitable construction is illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. Inasmuch as the construction of the two printi cylinders is substantially identical, with t e exception that the pitch of the helices thereon is in op-- ing continuposite directions, only the up r cylinder,,

shown in Fig. 3, will be descn the correspondirig parts on the lower cilinder shown in ig. 4 being designated y the same numerals with the exponent 3 added. It will of course be understood that in detail,

the character of each printing surface will "of the printing surface on the several plate to no rtions tween sections and the arrangement of the sections I being such that when said sections are assembled on the cylinder the helical-printing surface portions will combine and join to fol-ma complete elix extending from one 'end'of the c lin er to the other, as above stated. The. es of divisipn 47 between the several printing plate sections are arranged printing cylinder to cross each portion or conyolution of the printing surface 45 in a direction perpen dicnlar to the helix so as to avoid cutting the lines of type. To this end the plate sections ere preferably formed with intcrennaging serrated edges, the portions 470 of said edges which cross the coils or ,convolutions of the printing surface being perpendicular to said helix, and the portions 471 between said convolutions being substantially parallel to said helix. I

For securing the plate sections" to the there are provided end clamping blocks 48 (see also Fig. 6) formed with grooves 49 to receive the ends of the cylinder 21 and with beveled edges 50 to co- .onernte with the corresgondinigly beveled edges of the printing pistes 4:4: to clamp scid plates to the surface of the-cylinder, said prising a number corresponding in form ahd arrangement to.

groove 46 between the coils or a grooves 46 in the p clamping blocks being secured to the cylinder by means of bolts 51 passing tln'ough said blocks and entering tapped openings in the ends of the cylinder. Preferably the clamping'hlocks 48 are made of the annular form shown in Figs. 2 and 7,;each block comof sections equal to the number of printing late sections; Alternatively, if desired, said blocks may he of the short form shown in Figs. 3, ct and 8, a suitable number of thesehlocks being arranged about each end of the cylinder, preferably adjacent the joints between the printing plots sections. For securing the printing plates to the cylinder at points intermediate their endssaicl cylinder .(see Figs. 3, and 6} is formed on its outer surface with an undercut or dove-toiled helical groove the helical convolutions of the helical printing surface on the complete printing plate. Located within the groove 52 are dove-tailed blocks 53 having tapped openings to receive screws or, bolts passing through the bottoms of the 'rinting plate sections.

The web 26 in. its successive passage by the printing cylinders 21 end. 22 is printed on both sides in inclined strips l3, asshown in Fig. 12 and as heretofore more fully described. It will be understood that at each complete rotation oi a printing cylinder one end (that shown at the right in Fig. 3) of the printing surface to is brought into engagement will the web at one edge thereof and the opposite end of said printing sun", face passes out web at the opposite edge thereof, so that at each-rotation of the cylinder the printing oi.

. one strip is completed another strip begun and the printing of while a number of intermediate strl s,'equal to the number of convolntions o the helix on the cylinder, will he in veriousstages of completion. After the first endof the printing surface is brought into engagement with the web itrethe following cutting is provided reference spectivcly.

these knives upon the cyhnders correspondh-elices. In order I ting edge the meeting sides onthe knlves of engagement with said following construction mains conrinuously in engagement thencwith during a number of rotations or the cylinder equal to the" uu'mher-of convolntions of the helix, causing acontinuous diagonal strip or column b: orint'ed as above de scribed. Each strip will be printed on both sides by the upper and: lower printing cylinders respectively, the helical printing surfaces on said cylinders being so arranged with respect to one another as to cause the printing on the opposite side of each strip to register properly, any adjustment necessary to accomplish fected by means of the slides '37 and screws 39.

After passing the printing cylinders the web 26 is cut or slitted to separate the prints ed strips 13 from one another. To this end being had particularly to Figs. 1, 9, l0 and ll.

and 56 denote upper and lower slitting cylinders carried by shafts 5'? and 58 journaled in slides 59 mounted in guides 60 on the frame 20 and movahlein said guides by means of adjusting screws 61. The lower cylinder 56 is keyed to the shaft 58 upon which is secured s sprocket wheel 62 connected by a chain 63 to a sprocket flon. the shaft of the lower printing cylinder 22, said chain 63 passing over an adjustable idler sprocket 65 carried by the frame. Secured to the cylinder 56, as by bolts 68, is a. gear 66 which meshes with n gear 67 keyed to the shaft 57. By these connections the shafts 57 and 58 are rotated in unison from the shaft oi the lower printing cylinder '22.

or slitting mechanismthis result being eif-w On. the surfaces of the cylinders 55 and 56 ere helical slitting knives I69 and 69 re- 7 The form and arrangement of to the form and arrangement of the grooves '45 and 46* in the printing plates upon the printing, cylinders. The slitting knives 69 and. 69* are preferably formed in sections of suitable length secured tolthe cylinders by bolts or screws 70 (see Fig. 11)- end ground when in place in order to produce perfect to provide a perfect. cut- 69 and 69* are preferably slightly undercut, as shown in Fig. 1-1. In order to insure a. close engagement between, the cooperating slitting knives, thereby providing for a positive .and eliicient shearing action, the

is provided.

The upper slitting cylinder is not keyed to the shaft 57 but is looselymounted thereonand is provided with an inwardly turned flange 71 for ed with a series of o euings to receive pins ring drical flange 7-1 on the gear 67 and. held in place by means of a rib or retaining ring 75 suitably secured to the inner face of .said

72-projecting mward y from a i 73 rotatably mounted within a cylinflange 74. The rin 73 is formed with inwardly projecting Tags 76 between which and the lugs 77 on certain. of the spokes of the gear 67 are interposed springs 78 whose tension is adjustable by,means of screws 79 passing through theilugs 77. The rotation of the gear 67 is yieldingly transmitted through the springs 78, ring 73 and pins 72 to the cylinder 55. The arrangement of the parts is such that the tension of the springs 78 tends at all times to produce a rotation of the cylinder 55 with respect to the cylinder 56 in a suitable direction to hold the cooperating edges of the helical knives 69 and 69 -in close engagement with one another. Moreover the connection between the cylinder 55 and rings 73 through-the pins 72 g is such as to permitsaid cylinder, by moving the same a slight distance longitudinally on the shaft 57, to be adjusted to difl'erent angular positions on said shaft (the pins 72 being engaged with difl'erent openings in the flange 71) while maintaining the same relative positions of the helices on the two cylinders, thereby causing the knives to enga e one another at new oints, so that shou d grooves or dents deve op in the knives they could be so adjusted as to bring said grooves ordents at difi'erent relative points on the two knives. i f

The :web is fed from the printing cylinders to the slitting cylinders by means of the feed rolls 28 which are geared together and one of which is driven by a belt 80 from a pulley on the shaft of the upper impres sion cylinder 24. After leaving the slitting cylinders the strips43 maybe received upon a belt or other conveyer 81 of any suitable form.

It will of course be understood that the relative arrangement of the printing surfaces 45 and 45 on the printing cylinders and the knives 69 and 69 on the slitting cylinders is such that the web 26 is slit along lines between the strips or columns of printing. In order to secure accuracy in the position of the cuts made in the web the position of the slitting cylinders in the frame may be adjusted by means of the adjusting screws 61, as above explained.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

In a printing machine, a printing cylinder and a printing plate comprising a plurality of sections secured to said cylinder and having interengaging serrated edges, said sections having printing surfaces which collectively constitute a continuous printing surface wound about said cylinder in the form of a helix, said edges being perpendicular to said helix across the convolutions of said printing surface and substantially parallel to said helix between said convolutions.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN FLINN ANCONA.

v Witnesses:

G. B. Torninn, C. D. ANCONA. 

